African Silences

by PeterMatthiessen (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $9.02

  African Silences is a spellbinding and sobering journey through Africa's ravaged wildernesses. In 1978 and again in 1986, Matthiessen travelled through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast, Zaire and the Central African Republic to examine the fate of West African wildlife. African Silences shows Matthiessen at his best, taking the reader on hair-raising flights over forest and savanna, high-speed dashes by car along dirt roads, and slow journeys by river boat and jungle track, to encounter rare and endangered animals - elephants, gorillas and rhinos amongst them - and the wildlife biologists who study and attempt to protect them.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.52

• Used

  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.52

  In the tradition of his earlier books, The Snow Leopard and The Tree Where Man Was Born , African Silences chronicles Matthiessen's travels through Senegal, Gambia, the Ivory Coast and Zaire in search of the forest elephant and other disappearing animal species in the 1970s and to Zaire, Central African Republic, and Gabon in 1986. While conveying his excitement and delight in these great endangered animals - white rhinos, elephants and gorillas amongst them - Matthiessen also counts the human cost, focusing attention on ways of life that are now threatened equally by the disappearance of these animals and by bankrupt political regimes. Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and graduated from Yale in 1950. He is the author of six works of fiction including At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Killing Mister Watson , together with many works of non-fiction.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $23.44